Tattoos You Could Give Your Child

Chaotic Moon, a company based in Austin, Texas, has been working on a new type of Biowearable device that has the potential to disrupt several industries. Their idea is called Tech Tatts–a temporary tattoo that consists of electric paint instead of ink. Other than the fact that this tattoo doesn’t require any needles, there are many other things that make Tech Tatts really awesome.

According to it’s creators, this device will be able to take place of monitoring devices in hospitals, which will declutter crowded hospital rooms. It will also allow patients to be more mobile, since the Tech Tatt is externally placed on your skin and will not be hooked into walls and other surfaces. Tech Tatt’s aren’t only for hospital patients though. They will be able to track the user’s health and fitness year-round, so those annual checkups would be a thing of the past. The device will be able to alert you at the first signs of illness. Instead of staying home on Wednesday to combat the flu you’ve been anticipating since Monday, you will be able to immediately treat the symptoms. This will increase overall productivity of students and workers.

Although Tech Tatts are extremely beneficial to the health industry, they also have other convenient uses. They would be linked to your smart phone, so you can get notifications with ease. This will also allow you to monitor yourself in the same way a FitBit monitors you. The developers of Tech Tatts also believe their product would disrupt the banking industry. All of your card information could be kept in the Tech Tatt instead of in your wallet, where it is vulnerable to identity thieves. This would also allow users to not have to worry about losing or forgetting their wallet while moving from store to store.

Eric Schneider, the Creative Technologist at Chaotic Moon, also discusses the customization of Tech Tatts. Users would have the ability to design their Tech Tatt as if it were a normal tattoo. Overall, the Tech Tatt is an innovation that could both help and destroy several existing industries. The prototype definitely illustrates where the future of technology is heading.

 

3 thoughts on “Tattoos You Could Give Your Child

  1. I understand the concept and I think its very disruptive, which is a good thing . But conceptually I dont how these will be powered as in what will their source of power be and what would be the shelf life of each of theses ‘tats’ in addition if that device is carrying the information it ays it will carry then is there a issue of protection of data that we need to look at. I mean if one device is monitoring your health , the year round then data privacy becomes a big issue, All this being said I think this would be huge boon to infants and would greatly reduce the infant mortality rate as there are several diseases that newborns contract but its hard to catch in the first years as they are infants.

  2. These tattoos sound like they can do anything. A device that could keep track of your health year round would definitely hurt many businesses such as clinical doctors clinics and wellness centers. It would decrease the job market heavily. But overall I think this would be a beneficial device for people to have.

  3. This new tech is one that is very interesting to me as someone who has had a tendency to be sick a lot and has played sports all of his life. This new technology could be very beneficial, but could also lead to some major problems down the road. This technology could be very useful for the fact that once you start to feel any type of cold and getting sick symptoms you can pop this tattoo on and it will give you immediate feedback on how your body is doing and what you should do to keep it healthy. I also believe this tech would be very innovative in the hospital setting because it basically would take the place of half of the monitors in each hospital room and just leave space for either another patient to come in on the other side or for family members to see to the person who is in the hospital. One big issue that I see from this new technology is the physicals part. An athlete who knows they are sick or something is wrong with them and wants to just play that season could put this on one of their friends so they get perfectly clear readings so they are cleared to play for that season. I think that that would be a huge issue and safety concern because that could not only lead to that person hurting themselves more, it could also lead to lawsuits saying that the doctors missed something at the “physical’ and things could get messy very quickly.

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